Sharp County record., 1887-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

VINO distinguished himself with custer,
is to be tried by courtmartial at FIT.
Duchesne for too fondly courting the flow
ing bowl.
NEIGHBoRs seeing no one stirring about
the residence of Jos. King, at Ortonville,
Mimi, on the 10th, forced an entrance and
found Mr. and Mrs. King in bed apparent
ly dead and the house full of coal gas.
Everything possible was done to bring
the unfortunates back to life, and in the
case of Mr. King with partial success.
Mrs. King was found quite dead Mr..
King may rally and recover.
REV. j. G. NEUTzEL, Of Oshkosh (Wis)
Trinity Lutheran Church, announces that
after Sunday, the 10th inst, he will expel
members of his church who persist in be-
longing to the Knights of Labor.
AL KERN, railroad conductor, was
killed by the cars at Keokuk, Ia, on the
11th.
The steamer D. L. Tally, of Mobile,
struck a snag and sank ten miles above
Demopolis, Ala, on the 11th.
ONE hundred and thirty-five members
elect of the Fiftieth Congress had not, up
to the 18th, filed their certificates of cleo
ton.
PRINCE BISMARCK and Count Won Moltke,
on the 11th, earnestly advocated before the
Reichstag the passage of the governments
Military bill.
SAN Francisco had slight earthquake
shock on the 11th
The French made an attack recently on
the Tonquinese at Than-Hoa, but were re-
pulsed.
MAJOR j. P. MCILRATH committed suicide
at Cleveland, o., on the 11th.
A QUARREL at the Union Stock yards at
st. Louis, on the 1lth, resulted in Y.
R. Marstellea shooting and killing Robert
A. Steele.
JAMES M. RAYMER and F. E. Seagrave,
bankers of Toledo, O., arrested on charge
of embezzlement, have been released on
81 1000 bail.
Two unknown laborers were murdered
in North Mississippi, and their bodies
thrown into brush-heap, where they
were discovered on the 18th, partially con-
sumed by fire.
NEW efforts are being made to secure
pardon for Weston, the Chicago mil
lionaire, now serving term in the Penn
sylvania penitentiary.
S.M. RANDOLPH, architect of the Quincy
| Qll.) Soldiers and Sailors Home, makes
some very damaging charges against the
trustees of that institution.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER of Cincinnati ridi-
Gu les the report that the Catholic church
and the Knights of Labor are united in op-
position to the Henry George movement.
The Secretary of War recommends Con
| gress to add $50 1000 to Military Academy
bill in the items of "current and ordinary
expenses" to be expended for COOKS,
nurses, etc.
THE London Times says the British
| Cabinet is threatened from within, not
from without.
A DYNAMITE factory at Plattsburg, N.
Y, was destroyed by an explosion and
fire on the 18th.
| IT is learned that the value OF bullion
stolen while being transported from San
| Augustine mine in Arizona, was S25,OOO.
| The two men arrested have been released.
| No clew to the robbers exists.
COLONEL w. s. KING, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, the plaintiff in the ng-Reamng-
ton suit, stated in Rochester, N. Y, on the
| 18th, that his suit and that of his wife had
been settled by the payment OF S3,OOOOOO.
| Colonel King paid Hon John Van Voor
hes, of Rochester, his principal counsel, a
| fee of 100000 The fees Of the remaining
counsel are in proportion.
THE Colorado Legislature passed con-
| current resolution instructing the United
States Senators from that State, and re-
questng the Representatives to vote for
and use all honorable means to secure the
of ha Int of m
Both houses of the Minnesota Legis-
lature passed memorial, after consider
able debate, asking Minnesota's United |
States Senators to vote for the Inter- |
State Commerce bill as it stands.
The Senate bill granting a pension of |
$1,000 year to Mrs. Logan will encounter |
some opposition in the House, Chairman |
Matson of the pension committee being Of |
the opinion that the disease or disability |
which resulted in General Logan's death :,
did not occur while he was in the army, |
1t is considered certain, however, that the
bill will pass as received from the Senate,
without any reduction.
Two more victims Of the Tifin (O) disas-
ter have been traced.
IT is rumored that Russia contemplates
descent upon Norway.
THE Chicago Drug and Chemical Com
pany has failed for 5000.
THOMAS MURPHY was burned to death in
a fire at Portsmouth, O., on the 18th.
LORD IDDEsLETGH better known as Sir
Stafford Northcote, died suddenly on the
18th, in London, of heart disease.
A GENERAL strike of miners is threa T.
ened in the anthracite coal fields of Penn
sylvania.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's recent speech in the
German Reichstag on the Army bill pro-
duced deep impression in Paris
NAILS have been advanced from g. 40 to
$3.50 per keg by the Western Nail Asso-
citation.
HENRY H. FINLAY, the London swindler,
was formerly connected with the Detroit
(Mich) Free Press, and later with the
AnglO-American Insurance Company at
Washington.
ZANKOFF's mission to Turkey, which was
to have himself reinstated in power IN |
Bulgaria, it is said will fail.
A NATURAL-GAs explosion at Pittsburgh, |
Pa, on the 18th severely burned the chief |
of the fire department and several assist
ants.
FREDERICK j. EUsTIs, of Boston, hus-
band of an actress, tried to shoot his wife
at the entrance to Philadelphia theater
on the night of the 18th.
In the oleomargarine test at Washing